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>One study found that cultured meat could actually be 25 times worse for the planet than factory farmed meat. Because instead of chickens eating waste products
by hospitalJail 3y ago
>One study found that cultured meat could actually be 25 times worse for the planet than factory farmed meat.
Because instead of chickens eating waste products, we run electricity to build cells.
I imagine those waste products will be used by something else.
- foxyv 3y agoI think it's more because the medium used to grow the cells has to be so heavily processed it results in more waste. A chicken will grow in a dirty yard with enough water and corn meal while scratching for bugs and worms. A cell culture requires a nutrient bath that is completely sterile. So instead of just feeding the corn to the chickens you are processing a ton of corn to produce glucose and such... I think eventually they will create bio reactors that can process corn like a chicken can, but it will essentially just be a chicken without a brain. Meat is honestly disgusting when you think too much about it.